Open main menu
Open main menu
W.D. Mull
(1839 - 1896)
Home State: Indiana
Education: Jefferson Medical College (PA), Class of 1868
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 22 year old farmhand living with his parents and 8 siblings on their farm at Rockville in Parke County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Corporal in Company A, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to First Sergeant, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 22 September and transferred to Washington, DC on 28 September 1862. He was discharged for disability on 5 January 1863.
He was appointed Captain of the Washington Guards of the Parke Regiment for State service on 28 March 1863 then re-enrolled for Federal service on 31 July and mustered as Captain of Company B, 115th Indiana Infantry on 5 August for a 6 month term. He was commissioned Captain of Company I of the 137th Indiana Infantry on 25 May 1864 and mustered out with them in September 1864 in Indianapolis and, lastly, he was commissioned Captain of Company E, 149th Indiana Infantry on 21 February 1865 and appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment 2 days later. He mustered out with the 149th on 27 September 1865 in Nashville, TN.
After the War
He graduated from medical school in 1868 and began a practice in Terra Haute, IN. He returned to Rockville, IN in 1877. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in February 1879. He was elected Sheriff of Parke County in 1894 and was killed while attempting to arrest a murder suspect at about 1:00 pm on 25 April 1896.
References & notes
Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and a bio sketch in H.W. Beckwith's History of Vigo and Parke Counties ... (1880). His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph of unknown provenance contributed by Marc Thayer III.
He married Martha E. Allen (1850-1883) in 1869 and they had 2 children.
Birth
01/07/1839; East Fairfield, OH
Death
04/25/1896; Rockville, IN; burial in Rockville Cemetery, Rockville, IN
1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 3, pp. 193, 313, 350, 352, 594; V. 4, p. 273 [AotW citation 33447]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #335 [AotW citation 33448]